Evolution of Nuclear Strategy

Evolution of Nuclear Strategy

New, Updated and Completely Revised

Michaels, Jeffrey; Freedman, Lawrence

Palgrave Macmillan

08/2019

786

Mole

Inglês

9781137573490

15 a 20 dias

1033

1. The Arrival of the Bomb.- 2. The Strategy of Hiroshima.- 3. Offence and Defence.- 4. Aggression and Retaliation.- 5. Strategy for an Atomic Monopoly.- 6. Strategy for an Atomic Stalemate.- 7. Massive Retaliation.- 8. Limited Objectives.- 9. Limited Means.- 10. The Importance of Being First.- 11. Sputnik and the Soviet Threat.- 12. Soviet Strategy after Stalin.- 13. The Technological Arms Race.- 14. New Sources of Strategy.- 15. The Strategy of Stable Conflict.- 16. Disarmament to Arms Control.- 17. Operational Nuclear Strategy.-18. Khrushchev's Second-Best Deterrent.- 19. Defending Europe.- 20. No Cities.- 21. Assured Destruction.- 22. Britain's 'Independent' Nuclear Deterrent.- 23. France and the Credibility of Nuclear Guarantees.- 24. A NATO Nuclear Force.- 25. The Unthinkable Weapon.- 26. China's Paper Tiger.- 27. The Soviet Approach to Deterrence.- 28. The McNamara Legacy.- 29. Salt, Parity and the Critique Of Mad.- 30. Actions and Reactions.- 31. Selective Options.- 32. ICBM Vulnerability.- 33. The Rise of Anti-Nuclear Protest.- 34. Strategic Defences.- 35. Soviet Doctrine from Brezhnev to Gorbachev.- 36. The End of the Cold War.- 37. Mutual Assured Safety.- 38. Elimination or Marginalization.- 39. The Second Nuclear Age.- 40. The Nuclear War on Terror.- 41. Proliferation: The Middle East and the Pacific.- 42. The Return of Great Power Politics.- 43. Primacy and Maximum Deterrence.- 44. Can There Be A Nuclear Strategy?.
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nuclear weapons;nuclear strategy;Cold War;deterrence;proportionality;parity;vertical proliferation;horizontal proliferation;rationality;assured destruction;vulnerability;primacy;second strike;systems analysis;SALT;START;security;strategic defence;trust;second- and third-order issues